SANTERIA=EXTREME IGNORANCE + ANOTHER EXCUSE TO TORTURE ANIMALS

A Virginia woman has been convicted of animal cruelty after she decapitated roosters in her home as part of a Santeria ritual sacrifice.

Mercy Carrion, 43, a Santeria priestess from Loudoun County, declared in court on Wednesday that the charges against her violated her First Amendment right to freedom of religion.

Prosecutor Alexandra Hazel set the matter of Carrion’s religion aside, arguing that she had the right to sacrifice the roosters, but said she broke the law by failing to care for the birds beforehand and then slaughtered them in an inhumane way, reported the Loudoun Times Mirror.